The new simulator will be known as the ‘Pieter Caland’, after the civil engineer who designed the plan for the New Waterway in the nineteenth century. It was inaugurated by Bram Roelse, a member of the board of IHC Merwede and the supervisory board of IHC Systems.
This is the first simulator with an outside view simulating both sailing and dredging with a trailing suction hopper dredger. IHC Systems has been building simulators for the dredging market since 2002. The first version was built for the Belgian company Jan De Nul, but was not equipped with an outside view.
In the years after that, IHC Systems developed simulators for cutter suction dredgers for the two Belgian contractors DEME and Jan De Nul. IHC Systems develops them on a group-wide basis with shipyard IHC Dredgers, research institute MTI Holland and the Training Institute for the Dredging industry TID.
